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Nebraska Postgame Notes

Nebraska Postgame Notes
Oct. 22, 2005 at Missouri

  • Nebraska’s loss dropped the Huskers to 5-2 overall and 2-2 in Big 12 Conference play. The setback was Nebraska’s second straight loss in Columbia, as the Huskers lost 41-24 in 2003. Before the 2003 loss in Columbia, Nebraska had won 13 straight against the Tigers at Faurot Field and 24 in a row vs. Missouri overall.
  • Nebraska junior quarterback Zac Taylor completed 22-of-43 passes for 281 yards and two touchdowns in today’s game. This marked the fourth straight game Taylor has thrown for two or more touchdown passes, after having just one touchdown pass in the first three games combined. Taylor’s 281 yards passing, his second-highest total of the season, pushed his season total to 1,508 yards, leaving him in ninth place on the NU single-season list.
  • Nebraska redshirt freshman wide receiver Nate Swift caught a career-high nine passes for 135 yards and his first career touchdown against the Tigers. Swift’s previous high in receptions was five vs. Iowa State (81 yards). Swift now has 19 receptions this season, all in Nebraska’s past four games.
  • Swift is the second Husker to have 100 yards receiving this season, joining Frantz Hardy who had 153 yards receiving in the season opener against Maine.
  • Swift’s nine receptions are tied for fourth while his 135 receiving yards tie for seventh on the NU single-game chart. The last time a Husker had at least nine receptions was 1998 when Matt Davison had 10 catches for a school-record 167 receiving yards.
  • Nebraska redshirt freshman wide receiver Todd Peterson caught a 34-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Zac Taylor with 2:44 remaining in the first quarter to cut Missouri’s lead to 21-10. The catch was Peterson’s second career catch, both for touchdowns. Peterson had a 21-yard touchdown reception at Baylor last week. Peterson finished the day with three catches for 65 yards and a touchdown.
  • Nebraska senior I-back Cory Ross rushed 10 times for 39 yards in today’s game to move into a tie with Rick Berns for 14th place on the Nebraska career rushing list with 2,449 career rushing yards.
  • Nebraska’s defense recorded four sacks in today’s game, including one each by Adam Carriker, Corey McKeon, Blake Tiedtke and Barry Turner. Turner forced a fumbled on his sack that was recovered by Jay Moore and returned 17 yards deep into Tiger territory. Carriker leads Nebraska with seven sacks this season, while McKeon has six and Turner has added five. The Huskers had a nation-leading 34 sacks entering today’s game and have had at least four sacks in all seven games this season. Nebraska’s 38 sacks this season leaves the Huskers 15 sacks shy of the school record of 53 sacks set in 1999.
  • Nebraska senior safety Daniel Bullocks blocked a second-quarter Tiger punt to set up a Nebraska touchdown that cut the MU lead to 24-17. The block was the first blocked kick of Bullocks’ career. Bullocks did have a 10-yard return for a touchdown last year at Kansas State on a botched snap on a Wildcat punt.
  • Bullocks’ blocked kick marked the second straight year Nebraska has blocked a punt against the Tigers. Last season in Lincoln, Andrew Shanle blocked a second-quarter Tiger punt that Adam Ickes scooped up and returned 16 yards for a touchdown to give Nebraska a 10-3 lead. Ickes also recovered a fumbled Tiger punt attempt deep in MU territory later in the game, setting up a touchdown that gave Nebraska 17-3 edge.
  • Nebraska senior punter Sam Koch punted seven times today for an average of 48.1 yards, with a long of 55 yards. Koch had five of his punts downed inside the Tiger 20, and has now pinned opponent’s inside the 20-yard line on 20 of 36 punts this season.
  • Nebraska freshman place-kicker Jordan Congdon kicked three extra points and a 32-yard field goal in the loss. Congdon is now tied for ninth on the NU single-season list with 12 field goals and needs just two more to tie the Husker freshman record of 14 held by David Dyches (2003) and Josh Brown (1999).
  • Nebraska sophomore cornerback Cortney Grixby had the first interception of his career on the final play of the first half.
  • Freshman running back Marlon Lucky had two kickoff returns for 56 yards in today’s game, including a career-best 38-yarder in the third quarter.
  • Missouri quarterback Brad Smith rushed 28 times for 246 yards in today’s game marking just the fifth 200-yard rushing game against Nebraska in school history. It was a quarterback rushing record against the Huskers and was the second-highest rushing mark overall, trailing only the 247 rushing yards by Billy Sims at Oklahoma in 1979.
  • Smith's 480 yards of total offense ranked as the second-highest total by an opposing player in Nebraska history, trailing only the 568 total offense yards by Louisiana Tech's Tim Rattay (-22 rush, 590 pass) on Aug. 29, 1998.
  • Nebraska's minus-two rushing yards was the second-lowest total in school history, trailing only the minus-17 yards the Huskers managed against Oklahoma on Nov. 24, 1951 (33 att.). The Huskers had just 19 rushing attempts against Missouri, including four sacks of quarterback Zac Taylor.